Gandalf (V.O.): I am the servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the
Flame of Anor.

Gandalf (V.O.): Go back to the shadow. The Dark Fire will not avail you,
Flame of Udun!

Gandalf: YOUвЂ¦ SHALL NOTвЂ¦ PASS!!!

Boromir: No! No!

Frodo: Gandaaaaalf!

Gandalf: Fly, you fools!

Frodo: Noooooooooo!!! Gaaandaaaaalf!

Frodo: Gandalf!

Sam: What is it, Mr. Frodo?

Frodo: Nothing. Just a dream.

THE TWOTOWERS

Sam: Mordor. The one place in Middle-earth we donвЂ™t want to see any
closer, and the one place we are trying to get to. ItвЂ™s just where we canвЂ™t
get. LetвЂ™s face it, Mr. Frodo. WeвЂ™re lost. I donвЂ™t think Gandalf meant for us
to come this way.

Frodo: He didnвЂ™t mean for a lot of things to happen, SamвЂ¦ but they did.

Sam: Mr. Frodo? ItвЂ™s the Ring, isnвЂ™t it?

Frodo: ItвЂ™s getting heavier.

Frodo: What food have we got left?

Sam: Well, let me see. Oh yes, lovely вЂ“ Lembas bread. And look! More
Lembas bread. I don't usually hold to foreign food, but this Elvish stuff is
not bad.

Saruman (V.O.): The old world will burn in the fires of industry. The
forests will fall. A new order will rise. We will drive the machine of war with
the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the Orc. We have only to remove
those who oppose us.

Saruman: The Horsemen took your lands. They drove your people into the
hills to scratch a living off rocks.

Dunland men: Murderers!

Saruman: Take back the lands they stole from you! Burn every village!

Saruman (V.O.): It will begin in Rohan. Too long have these peasants
stood against you. But no more.

Eomer: What business does an elf, a man and a dwarf have in the
Riddermark? Speak quickly!

Gimli: Give me your name, Horsemaster, and I shall give you mine.

Eomer: I would cut off your head, dwarf, if it stood but a little higher
from the ground.

Legolas: You would die before your stroke fell!

Aragorn: I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn. This is Gimli, son of Gloin, and
Legolas of the Woodland realm. We are friends of Rohan and of Theoden, your king.

Eomer: Theoden no longer recognizes friend from foe. Not even his own
kin. Saruman has poisoned the mind of the king and claim lordship over his
lands. My company are those loyal to Rohan. And for that, we are banished. The
White Wizard is cunning. He walks here and there they say, as an old man,
hooded and cloaked. And everywhere his spies slip past our nets.

Aragorn: We are not spies. We track a party of Uruk-hai westward across
the plain. TheyвЂ™ve taken two of our friends captive.

Eomer: The Uruks are destroyed. We slaughtered them during the night.

Gimli: But there were two hobbits. Did you see two hobbits with them?

Aragorn: They would be small вЂ“ only children to your eyes.

Eomer: We left none alive. We piled the carcasses and burned them.

Gimli: Dead?

Eomer: I am sorry.

Eomer: Hasufel! Arod! May these horses bear you to better fortune than
their former masters. Farewell. Look for your friends, but do not trust to
hope, it has forsaken these lands.

Eomer (to rohirrim): We ride north!

Gimli: ItвЂ™s one of them little belts.

Gimli: We failed them.

Aragorn: A hobbit lay here, and the other.

Aragorn: They crawled.

Aragorn: Their hands were bound.

Aragorn: Their bonds were cut.

Aragorn: They ran over hereвЂ¦ and were followed.

Merry: The belt!

Merry: Run!

Aragorn: The tracks lead away from the battleвЂ¦ into FangornForest.

Gimli: Fangorn! What madness drove them in there?

Pippin: Did we lose him? I think we lost him.

Grishnakh: IвЂ™m gonna rip out your filthy little innards! Come here!

Merry: Trees! Climb a tree!

Merry: He's gone.

Pippin: Merry!

Grishnakh: LetвЂ™s put a maggot-hole in your belly.

Pippin: Run, Merry!

Treebeard: Little orcs!

Pippin: ItвЂ™s talking, Merry. The tree is talking!

Treebeard: Tree?! I am no tree. I am an ent.

Merry: Treeherder! A shepherd of the forest.

Pippin: DonвЂ™t talk to it, Merry. DonвЂ™t encourage it.

Treebeard: Treebeard, some call me.

Pippin: And whose side are you on?

Treebeard: Side? I am on nobodyвЂ™s side because nobody is on my side,
little orc. Nobody cares for the woods anymore.

Merry: WeвЂ™re not Orcs. WeвЂ™re Hobbits!

Treebeard: Hobbits? Never heard of a Hobbit before. Sounds like orc
mischief to me! They come with fire, they come with axes! Gnawing, biting,
breaking, hacking, burning! Destroyers and usurpers, curse them!

Treebeard: Maybe you are and maybe you arenвЂ™t. The White Wizard will
know.

Pippin: The White Wizard?

Merry: Saruman.

Gollum: See, see, we have led you out! Hurry, hobbitses, hurry. Very
lucky we find you.

Gollum: Nice hobbit.

Sam: ItвЂ™s a bog! HeвЂ™s led us into a swamp!

Gollum: A swamp, yes, yes. Come, master. We will take you on safe paths
through the mist. Come, hobbits, come. We move quickly.

Gollum: I found it, I did. The way through the marshes. Orcs don't use
it. Orcs don't know it. They go round for miles and miles. Come quickly. Soft
and quick as shadows we must be.

Sam: There are dead things! Dead faces in the water!

Gollum: All dead. All rotten. Elves and men and orcses. A great battle
long ago. The Dead Marshes. Yes, yes that is the name. This way. DonвЂ™t follow
the lights.

Gollum: Careful now, or hobbits go down to join the dead ones and light
little candles of their own.

Sam: Frodo!

Frodo: Gollum?

Gollum: DonвЂ™t follow the lights!

Frodo: Gollum.

Sam: Mr. Frodo! Are you alright?

Gollum: Sooo bright. Sooo beautiful. Our PreciousssssвЂ¦

Frodo: What did you say?

Gollum: Master should be resting. Master needs to keep up his strength.

Frodo: Who are you?

Gollum: MustnвЂ™t ask us. Not its business. Gollum. Gollum.

Frodo: Gandalf told me you were one of the River folk.

Gollum: Cold
be heart and hand and bone.

Cold
be travelers far from home.

Frodo: He said your life was a sad story.

Gollum: They
do not see what lies ahead,

When
sun has failed and moon is dead.

Frodo: You were not so very different from a Hobbit once, were youвЂ¦
Smeagol?

Gollum: What did you call me?

Frodo: That was your name once, wasnвЂ™t it? A long time ago.

Gollum: My nameвЂ¦ my name. SвЂ¦ SвЂ¦ Smeagol.

Sam: Black Riders!

Gollum: Hide! Hide!

Sam: Come on Frodo! Come on!

Gollum: They will see us! They will see us!

Sam: I thought they were dead!

Gollum: Dead? No, you cannot kill them. No.

Gollum: Wraiths! Wraiths on wings!

Gollum: They are calling for It. They are calling for the Precious.

Sam: Mr. Frodo! ItвЂ™s alright.

Frodo: IвЂ™m here.

Gollum: Hurry, hobbits. The Black Gate is very close.

Gimli: Orc blood.

Aragorn: These are strange tracks.

Gimli: The air is so close in here.

Legolas: This forest is old. Very old. Full of memoryвЂ¦ and anger. The
trees are speaking to each other.

Aragorn: Gimli! Lower your axe.

Legolas: Aragorn, nad nâ ennas! (Something is out there.)

Aragorn: Man cenich? (What do you see?)

Legolas: The White Wizard approaches.

Aragorn: Do not let him speak. He will put a spell on us. We must be
quick.

WhiteWizard: You are tracking the footsteps of two
young hobbits.

Aragorn: Where are they?

WhiteWizard: They passed this way the day before
yesterday. They met someone they did not expect. Does that comfort you?

Aragorn: Who are you? Show yourself!

Aragorn: It cannot be. You fell.

Gandalf: Through fire and water. From the lowest dungeon to the highest
peak, I fought him, the Balrog of Morgoth. Until at last, I threw down my enemy
and smote his ruin upon the mountainside. Darkness took me. And I strayed out
of thought and time. Stars wheeled overhead and everyday was as long as a
life-age of the earth. But it was not the end. I felt life in me again. I've
been sent back until my task is done.

Aragorn: Gandalf!

Gandalf: Gandalf? Yes. That's what they used to call me. Gandalf the
Grey. That was my name.

Gimli: Gandalf!

Gandalf: I am Gandalf the White. And I come back to you now at the turn
of the tide.

Gandalf: One stage of the journey is over, another begins. War has come
to Rohan. We must ride to Edoras with all speed.

Legolas: That is one of the mearas, unless my eyes are cheated by some
spell.

Gandalf: Shadowfax. He's the lord of all horses and he's been my friend
through many dangers.

Treebeard (V.O.): My home. I sleep in the forest near the roots of the
mountain.

Treebeard: I told Gandalf I would keep you safe and safe is where IвЂ™ll
keep you. The trees have grown wild and dangerous. Anger festers in their
hearts. They will harm you if they can. There are too few of us now. Too few of
us Ents left to manage them.

Smeagol: The Black Gate of Mordor.

Sam: Oh, save us.

Sam: My old Gaffer have a thing or two to say if he could see us now.

Smeagol: Master says to show him the way into Mordor, so good Smeagol
does. Master says so.

Frodo: I did.

Sam: Well, thatвЂ™s it then. We cannot get past that.

Sam: Look! The gate, it's opening! I can see a way down.

Frodo: Sam! No!

Smeagol: Master!

Frodo: I do not ask you to come with me, Sam.

Sam: I know, Mr. Frodo. I doubt even these Elvish cloaks will hide us in
there.

Frodo: Now!

Smeagol: No! No! No master! They catch you! They catch you! DonвЂ™t take
it to Him! He wants the Ppreciousss. Always heвЂ™s looking for it! And the
Precious is wanting to go back to him.

Gollum: But we mustnвЂ™t let him have it.

Smeagol: No! ThereвЂ™s another way. More secret and dark way.

Sam: Why havenвЂ™t you spoken of this before?!

Smeagol: Because master did not ask!

Sam: HeвЂ™s up to something.

Frodo: Are you saying that thereвЂ™s another way into Mordor?

Smeagol: Yes. There is a path, and some stairs, and then a tunnel.

Frodo: He has led us this far, Sam.

Sam: Mr. Frodo, no.

Frodo: HeвЂ™s been true to his word.

Sam: No!

Frodo: Lead the way, Smeagol.

Smeagol: Good Smeagol always helps.

Gandalf: Edoras and the Golden Hall of Meduseld. There dwells Theoden,
King of Rohan, whose mind is overthrown. SarumanвЂ™s hold over King Theoden is
now very strong.

Eowyn: My lord, your son, he is dead. My lord? Uncle? Will you not go to
him? Will you do nothing?

Gandalf: Be careful what you say. Do not look for welcome here.

Grima: HeвЂ¦ he must have died sometime in the night. What a tragedy for
the king to lose his only son and heir.

Grima: I understand his passing is hard to accept, especially now that
your brother has deserted you.

Eowyn: Leave me alone you snake!

Grima: But you are alone! Who knows what you have spoken to the
darkness. In bitter watches of the night, when all your life seems to shrink,
the walls of your bower closing in about you. A hutch to trammel some wild
thing in. So fair, so cold, like a morning pale spring still clinging to
winter's chill.

Eowyn: Your words are poison.

Gimli: YouвЂ™d find more cheer in a graveyard.

Hama:
I cannot allow you before Theoden king so armed, Gandalf Grayhame. By order of
Grima Wormtongue.

Hama:
Your staff.

Gandalf: You would not part an old man from his walking stick?

Grima: My lord, Gandalf the Grey is coming. HeвЂ™s a herald of woe.

Gandalf: The courtesy of your hall is somewhat lessened of late, Theoden
king.

Grima: HeвЂ™s not welcome.

Theoden: WhyвЂ¦ should I welcome youвЂ¦ Gandalf Stormcrow?

Grima: A just question, my liege. Late is the hour in which this
conjurer chooses to appear. Lathspell I name him. Ill news is an ill guest.

Gandalf: Be silent! Keep your forked tongue behind you teeth. I have not
passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm!

Grima: His staff! I told you to take the wizardвЂ™s staff!

Gandalf: Theoden, son of Thengel, too long have you sat in the shadows.

Gimli: I would stay still, if I were you.

Gandalf: Harken to me! I release you from the spell.

Theoden: You have no power here, Gandalf the Grey.

Gandalf: I shall draw you, Saruman, as poison is drawn from a wound.

Aragorn: Wait.

Theoden: If I goвЂ¦ Theoden dies.

Gandalf: You did not kill me, you will not kill him!

Theoden: Rohan is mine!

Gandalf: Be gone!

Theoden: I know your face. EowynвЂ¦ Eowyn.

Gandalf: Breathe the free air again, my friend.

Theoden: Dark have been my dreams of late.

Gandalf: Your fingers would remember their old strength betterвЂ¦ if they
grasped your sword.

Grima: I've only ever served you, my lord!

Theoden: Your leechcraft would have had me crawling on all fours like a
beast!

Theoden: Simbelmyne. Ever has it grown on the tombs of my forebears. Now
it shall cover the grave of my son. Alas, that these evil days should be mine.
The young perish and the old linger. That I should live to see the last days of
my house.

Gandalf: TheodredвЂ™s death was not of your making.

Theoden: No parent should have to bury their child.

Gandalf: His was strong in life. His spirit will find its way to the
halls of your fathers.

Eowyn: They had no warning. They were
unarmed. Now the wildmen are moving through the Westfold, burning as they go.
Rick, cot and tree.

Freda: WhereвЂ™s mama?

Gandalf: This is but a taste of the terror that Saruman will unleash.
All the more potent for he is driven mad by fear of Sauron. Ride out and meet
him head on. Draw him away from your women and children. You must fight.

Aragorn: You have 2000 good men riding north as we speak. Eomer is loyal
to you. His men will return and fight for their king.

Theoden: They will be three hundred leagues from here by now. Eomer
cannot help us. I know what it is that you want of me. But I will not bring
further death to my people. I will not risk open war.

Aragorn: Open war is upon you. Whether you would risk it or not.

Theoden: When last I looked, Theoden, not Aragorn, was king of Rohan.

Gandalf: Then what is the kingвЂ™s decision?

Hama:
By order of the king, the city must empty. We make for the refuge of HelmвЂ™s
Deep. Do not burden yourselves with treasures. Take only what provisions you
need.

Gimli: HelmвЂ™s Deep! They flee to the mountains when they should stand
and fight. Who will defend them if not their king?

Aragorn: HeвЂ™s only doing what he thinks is best for his people. HelmвЂ™s
Deep has saved them in the past.

Gandalf: There is no way out of that ravine. Theoden is walking into a
trap. He thinks heвЂ™s leading them to safety. What they will get is a massacre.
Theoden has a strong will but I fear for him. I fear for the survival of Rohan.
He will need you before the end, Aragorn. The people of Rohan will need you.
The defenses have to hold.

Aragorn: They will hold.

Gandalf: The Grey PilgrimвЂ¦ thatвЂ™s what they used to call me. Three
hundred lives of men IвЂ™ve walked this earth and now I have no time. Good luck.
My search will not be in vain. Look to my coming at first light on the fifth
day. At dawn, look to the East.

Aragorn: Go.

Men: Hurry!

Aragorn: You have some skill with a blade.

Eowyn: Women of this country learned long ago that those without swords
may still die upon them. I fear neither death nor pain.

Aragorn: What do you fear, my lady?

Eowyn: A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and
all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire.

Aragorn: You are a daughter of kings, a shieldmaiden of Rohan. I do not
think that will be your fate.

Grima: Theoden will not stay at Edoras. ItвЂ™s vulnerable, he knows this.
He will expect an attack on the city. They will flee to HelmвЂ™s Deep, the great
fortress of Rohan. It is a dangerous road to take through the mountains. They
will be slow. They will have women and children with them.

Saruman: Send out your warg riders.

Sam: Hey Stinker! DonвЂ™t go getting too far ahead!

Frodo: Why do you do that?

Sam: What?

Frodo: Call him names, run him down all the time?

Sam: Because. Because that's what he is, Mr. Frodo. There's naught left
in him but lies and deceit. It's the Ring he wants. It's all he cares about.

Frodo: You have no idea what It did to him. What ItвЂ™s still doing to
him. I want to help him, Sam.

Sam: Why?

Frodo: Because I have to believe he can come back.

Sam: You canвЂ™t save him, Mr. Frodo.

Frodo: What do you know about it? Nothing! I'm sorry, Sam. I don't know
why I said that.

Sam: I do. It's the Ring. You can't take your eyes off it. I've seen
you. You're not eating. You barely sleep. It's taking a hold of you, Mr. Frodo.
You have to fight it!

Frodo: I know what I have to do Sam. The Ring was entrusted to me! It's
my task! Mine! My own!

Sam: CanвЂ™t you hear yourself? DonвЂ™t you know who you sound like?

Gollum: We wants It. We needs It. Must have the Preciousssss. They stole
It from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!

Smeagol: No! Not master.

Gollum: Yes, precious. False. They will cheat you, hurt you, lie.

Smeagol: MasterвЂ™s my friend.

Gollum: You donвЂ™t have any friends. Nobody likes you.

Smeagol: Not listening. IвЂ™m not
listening.

Gollum: YouвЂ™re a liar and a thief.

Smeagol: Nope.

Gollum: Murderer!

Smeagol: Go away.

Gollum: Go away!

Smeagol: I hate you. I hate you.

Gollum: Where would you be without me? Gollum. Gollum. I saved us. It
was me. We survived because of me!

Smeagol: Not anymore.

Gollum: What did you say?

Smeagol: Master looks after us now. We donвЂ™t need you.

Gollum: What?

Smeagol: Leave now and never come back.

Gollum: No!

Smeagol: Leave now and never come back!

Smeagol: Leave now and never come back!

Smeagol: WeвЂ¦ we told him to go away! And away he goes, preciousss. Gone,
gone, gone! Smeagol is free!

Smeagol: Look! Look! See what Smeagol finds!

Smeagol: They are young, they are tender, they are nice. Yes, they are!
Eat them! Eat them!

Sam: YouвЂ™ll make him sick, you will, behaving like that! ThereвЂ™s only
one way to eat a brace of coneys.

Smeagol: WhatвЂ™s he doing! Stupid fat hobbit! He ruins it!

Sam: WhatвЂ™s to ruin? ThereвЂ™s hardly any meat on them. What we need is a
few good taters.

Aragorn: I am mortal, you are Elfkind. It was a dream, Arwen, nothing
more. This belongs to you.

Arwen: It was a gift. Keep it.

Eowyn: My lord?

Aragorn: She is sailing to the Undying Lands, with all that is left of
her kin.

Gamling: What is it? Hama?

Hama:
IвЂ™m not sure.

Gamling: Wargs!

Legolas: A scout!

Theoden: What is it? What do you see?

Aragorn: Wargs! We are under attack!

Soldier: Get them out of here!

Theoden: All riders to the head of the column!

Gimli: Come on, get me up here, IвЂ™m a rider! Come on!

Theoden (to Eowyn): You must lead the people to HelmвЂ™s Deep. And make
haste!

Eowyn: I can fight!

Theoden: No! You must do thisвЂ¦ for me.

Theoden (to his men): Follow me!

Gimli: Forward, honey, forward! March forward!

Eowyn (to refugees): Make for the lower ground!

Gimli: ThatвЂ™s it! Go on!

Eowyn (to refugees): Stick together!

Theoden: Charge!!!

Gimli: Bring your pretty face to my axe!

Gimli: That one counts as mine!

Gimli: Stinking creature.

Legolas: Aragorn!

Gimli: Aragorn?

Gimli: Tell me what happened and I will ease your passing.

Sharku: HeвЂ™s dead. Took a little tumble off the cliff.

Legolas: You lie!

Theoden (to Gamling): Get the wounded on horses. The wolves of Isengard
will return. Leave the dead.

Theoden (to Legolas): Come.

Refugees: At last! HelmвЂ™s Deep! There it is! HelmвЂ™s Deep!

Refugees: WeвЂ™re safe! WeвЂ™re safe, my lady. Thank you.

Freda: Mama!

Morwen:
Freda!

Guard: Make way for Theoden! Make way for the king!

Eowyn: So few. So few of you have returned.

Theoden: Our people are safe. We have paid for it with many lives.

Gimli: My ladyвЂ¦

Eowyn: Lord Aragorn, where is he?

Gimli: He fellвЂ¦

Theoden: Draw all our forces behind the wall. Bar the gate, and set a
watch on the surround.

Gamling: What of those who cannot fight, my lord? The women and
children?

Theoden: Get them into the caves. Saruman's arm would have grown long
indeed if he thinks he can reach us here.

Grima (V.O.): HelmвЂ™s Deep has one weakness. ItвЂ™s outer wall is solid
rock but for a small culvert at its base which is little more than a drain.

Grima: How? How can fire undo stone? What kind of device could bring
down the wall?

Saruman: If the wall is breached, Helm's Deep will fall.

Grima: Even if it is breached, it would take a number beyond reckoning,
thousands to storm the keep.

Saruman: Tens of thousands.

Grima: But, my lord, there is no such force.

Saruman: A new power is rising. Its victory is at hand! This night, the
land would be stained with the blood of Rohan! March to HelmвЂ™s Deep! Leave none
alive! To war!!!

Saruman: There will be no dawnвЂ¦ for men.

Pippin: Look! The smoke to the south!

Treebeard: There is always smoke rising from Isengard these days.

Merry: Isengard?

Treebeard: There was a time when Saruman would walk in my woods. But now
he has a mind of metal and wheels. He no longer cares for growing things.

Pippin: What is it?

Merry: ItвЂ™s SarumanвЂ™s army! The war has started.

Arwen: May the grace of the Valar protect you.

Aragorn: BregoвЂ¦

Elrond: Arwen.

Elrond: Tollen i lû. I chair gwannar na Valannor. Si bado, no círar. (It
is time. The ships are leaving for Valinor. Go nowвЂ¦ before it is too late.)

Arwen: IвЂ™ve made my choice.

Elrond: He is not coming back. Why do you linger here when there is no
hope?

Arwen: There is still hope.

Elrond: If Aragorn survives this war, you will still be parted. If
Sauron is defeated, and Aragorn made king and all that you hope for comes true,
you will still have to taste the bitterness of mortality. Whether by the sword
or the slow decay of time, Aragorn will die. And there will be no comfort for
you. No comfort to ease the pain of his passing. He will come to death, an
image of the splendor of the kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking
of the world. But you, my daughter, you will linger on in darkness and in
doubt. As nightfall in winter that comes without a star. Here you will dwell,
bound to your grief, under the fading trees, until all the world has changed
and the long years of your life are utterly spent.

Elrond: ArwenвЂ¦ there is nothing for you here, only death.

Elrond: A im, u-'erin veleth lîn? (Do I not also have your love?)

Arwen: Gerich meleth nîn, ada. (You have my love, father)

Galadriel (V.O.): The power of the enemy is growing. Sauron will use his
puppet Saruman to destroy the people of Rohan. Isengard has been unleashed. The
Eye of Sauron now turns to Gondor, the last free kingdom of Men. His war on this country will come swiftly. He senses the Ring is
close. The strength of the Ringbearer is failing. In his heart, Frodo begins to
understand: the quest will claim his life. You know this. You have foreseen it.
It is the risk we all took. In the gathering dark, the will of the Ring grows
strong. It works hard now to find its way back into the hands of Men. Men, who
are so easily seduced by its power. The young captain of Gondor has but to
extend his hands, take the Ring for his own and the world will fall. It is
close now, so close to achieving its goal. For Sauron will have dominion of all
life on this Earth, even until the ending of the world. The time of the Elves
is over. Do we leave Middle-earth to its fate? Do we let them stand alone?

Faramir: What news?

Ranger 1: Our scouts report Saruman has attacked Rohan. TheodenвЂ™s people
have fled to HelmвЂ™s Deep. But we must look to our own borders. Faramir, orcs
are on the move. Sauron is marshalling an army. Easterlings and southrons are
passing through the Black Gate.

Faramir: How many?

Ranger 1: Some thousands. More come every day.

Faramir: WhoвЂ™s covering the river to the north?

Ranger 1: We pulled 500 men at Osgiliath, but if the city is attacked,
we wonвЂ™t hold it.

Faramir: Saruman attacks from Isengard. Sauron from Mordor. The fight
will come to Men on both fronts. Gondor is weak. Sauron will strike us soon.
And he will strike hard. He knows now we do not have the strength to repel him.

Faramir: My men tell me that you are orc spies.

Sam: Spies?! Now wait just a minute!

Faramir: Well if youвЂ™re not spies, then who are you? Speak.

Frodo: We are hobbits of the Shire. Frodo Baggins is my name and this is
Samwise Gamgee.

Faramir: Your bodyguard?

Sam: His gardener.

Faramir: And where is your skulking friend? That gangrel creature. He
had an ill-favoured look.

Frodo: There was no other.

Frodo: We set out from Rivendell with seven companions. One we lost in
Moria. Two were my kin. A dwarf there was also, and an elf. And two men,
Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and Boromir of Gondor.

Faramir: You were a friend of Boromir?

Frodo: YesвЂ¦ for my part.

Faramir: It would grieve you then to learn that he was dead.

Frodo: Dead? How? When?

Faramir: As one of his companions, I hoped you would tell me. He was my
brother.

Soldier: Captain Faramir.

Faramir: You must come with me. Now.

Faramir: Down there.

Faramir: To enter the Forbidden Pool bears the penalty of death.

Faramir: They wait for my command. Shall they shoot?

Smeagol: The
rock and pool

Is
nice and cool,

So
juicy sweet.

Our
only wish

To
catch a fish,

So
juicy sweet!

Frodo: Wait! This creature is bound to me. And I to him. He is our
guide. Please, let me go down to him.

Gollum: Of course he did. I told you he was tricksy. I told you he was
false.

Smeagol: Master is our friend, our friend.

Gollum: Master betrayed us.

Smeagol: No, not itвЂ™s business. Leave us alone!

Gollum: Filthy little hobbitses. They stole it from us!

Smeagol: No! No!

Faramir: What did they steal?

Gollum: MyвЂ¦ Preciousss!!!

Sam: We have to get out of here. You go, go now! You can do it. Use the
Ring, Mr. Frodo. Just this once. Put it on. Disappear.

Frodo: I canвЂ™t. You were right, Sam. You tried to tell me. IвЂ™m sorry.
The RingвЂ™s taking me Sam. If I put it on, HeвЂ™ll find me. HeвЂ™ll see.

Sam: Mr. FrodoвЂ¦

Faramir: So, this is the answer to all the riddles. Here in the wild I
have you. Two halfings and a host of men at my call. The Ring of Power within
my grasp. A chance for Faramir, captain of Gondor, to show his quality.

Frodo: No!

Sam: Stop it! Leave him alone! DonвЂ™t you understand? HeвЂ™s got to destroy
it. ThatвЂ™s where weвЂ™re going. Into Mordor, to the Mountain of Fire.

Soldier: Osgiliath is under attack. They call for reinforcements.

Sam: Please. ItвЂ™s such a burden. Will you not help him?

Soldier: Captain?

Faramir (to soldier): Prepare to leave.

Faramir (to Frodo and Sam): The Ring will go to Gondor.

Refugees: HeвЂ™s alive!

Gimli: Where is he? Where is he? Get out of the way. IвЂ™m gonna kill him!

Gimli: You are the luckiest, the canniest and the most reckless man I
ever knew! Bless you, laddie!

Aragorn: Gimli, where is the king?

Legolas: Le ab-dollen. (YouвЂ™re late.) You look terrible.

Theoden: A great host, you say?

Aragorn: All Isengard is emptied.

Theoden: How many?

Aragorn: 10.000 strong at least.

Theoden: 10.000?!

Aragorn: It is an army bred for a single purpose: to destroy the World
of Men. They will be here by nightfall.

Theoden: Let them come!

Theoden: I want every man and strong lad able to bear arms to be ready
for battle by nightfall.

Theoden: We will cover the causeway and the gate from above. No army has
ever breached the Deeping wall or set foot inside the Hornburg.

Gimli: This is no rabble of mindless orcs. These are Uruk-hai. Their
armor is thick and their shields broad.

Theoden: I have fought many wars, master dwarf. I know how to defend my
own keep.

Theoden: They will break upon this fortress like water on rock.
SarumanвЂ™s hordes will pillage and burn, weвЂ™ve seen it before. Crops can be
resown; homes rebuilt. Within these walls, we will outlast them.

Aragorn: They do not come to destroy RohanвЂ™s crops or villages. They
come to destroy its people. Down to the last child.

Theoden: What would you have me do? Look at my men. Their courage hangs
by a thread. If this is to be our end, then I would have them make such an end
as to be worthy of remembrance.

Aragorn: Send out riders, my lord. You must call for aid.

Theoden: And who will come? Elves? Dwarves? We are not so lucky in our
friends as you. The old alliances are dead.

Aragorn: Gondor will answer.

Theoden: Gondor? Where was Gondor when the Westfold fell?! Where was
Gondor when our enemies closed in around us?! Where was GonвЂ¦ No, my lord
Aragorn, we are alone.

Theoden: Get the women and children into the caves.

Gamling: We need more time to lay provisions for a siege, lordвЂ¦

Theoden: There is no time! War is upon us!

Gamling: Secure the gate!

Treebeard: The Ents have not troubled about the wars of Men and Wizards
for a very long time. But now something is about to happen that has not
happened for an ageвЂ¦ Entmoot.

Merry: WhatвЂ™s that?

Treebeard: 'Tis a gathering.

Merry: A gathering of what?

Treebeard: Beech, oak, chestnut, ashвЂ¦ Good, good, good. Many have come.
Now we must decide if the Ents will go to war.

Soldier: Move back! Move to the caves!

Soldier: Keep moving!

Soldier: Quickly now!

Man: Come on.

Aragorn: Farmers, farriers, stable boys. These are no soldiers.

Gimli: Most have seen too many winters.

Legolas: Or too few. Look at them. TheyвЂ™re frightened. I can see it in
their eyes.

Legolas: Aragorn, men i ndagor. Hýn u-вЂ¦ ortheri. Natha daged aen! (They
cannot win this fight. They are all going to die!)

Aragorn: Then I shall die as one them!

Gimli: Let him go, lad. Let him be.

Gamling: Every villager able to wield a sword has been sent to the
armory. My lord?

Theoden: Who am I, Gamling?

Gamling: You are our king, sire.

Theoden: And do you trust your king?

Gamling: Your men, my lord, will follow you to whatever end.

Theoden: To whatever endвЂ¦ Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the
horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind
in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into
shadow. How did it come to this?

Soldier: Move! Move to the outer wall.

Aragorn: Give me your sword. What is your name?

Haleth: Haleth, son of Hama, my lord. The
men are saying that we will not live out the night. They say that it is
hopeless.

Aragorn: This is a good sword, Haleth, son of Hama.
There is always hope.

Legolas: We have trusted you this far and you have not led us astray.
Forgive me. I was wrong to despair.

Aragorn: A Eruchîn, u-dano i faelas a hyn an uben tanatha le faelas!
(Show them no mercyвЂ¦ for you shall receive none!)

Gimli: WhatвЂ™s happening out there?

Legolas: Shall I describe it to you? Or would you like me to find you a
box?

Aragorn: Dartho! (HOLD!)

Theoden: So it begins.

Aragorn: Tangado halad! (Prepare to fire!)

Legolas: Faeg i-varv dîn na lanc a nu ranc. (Their armor is weak
at the neckвЂ¦ and beneath the arms.)

Aragorn: Leithio i philinn! (Release Arrows!)

Gimli: Did they hit anything?

Theoden: Give them a volley.

Gamling: Fire!

Soldier: Fire!

Gimli: Send them coming! Come on!

Aragorn: Pendraid! (Ladders!)

Gimli: Good!

Aragorn: Swords! Swords!

Gimli: Legolas, two already!

Legolas: IвЂ™m on seventeen!

Gimli: IвЂ™ll have no pointy-ear outscoring me!

Legolas: Nineteen!

Pippin: Merry!

Treebeard: We have just agreed.

Merry: Yes?

Treebeard: I have told your names to the Entmoot and we have agreed: you
are not Orcs.

Pippin: Well, thatвЂ™s good news.

Merry: And what about Saruman? Have you come to a decision about him?

Treebeard: Now donвЂ™t be hasty, Master Meriadoc.

Merry: Hasty? Our friends are out there! They need our help! They cannot
fight this war on their own.

Treebeard: War, yesвЂ¦ It affects us all. But you must understand, young
hobbit. It takes a looong time to say anything in old entish. And we never say
anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.

Treebeard: The Ents cannot hold back this storm. We must weather such
things as we have always done.

Merry: How can that be your decision?!

Treebeard: This is not our war.

Merry: But you're part of this world! ArenвЂ™t you?! You must help,
please! You must do something!

Treebeard: You are young and brave, master Merry. But your part in this
tale is over. Go back to your home.

Pippin: Maybe TreebeardвЂ™s right. We donвЂ™t belong here, Merry. It's too
big for us. What can we do in the end? We've got the Shire. Maybe we should go
home?

Merry: The fires of Isengard will spread. And the woods of Tuckborough
and Buckland will burn. AndвЂ¦ and all that was once green and good in this world
will be gone. There won't be a Shire, Pippin.

Theoden: Aragorn! Pull back to the Keep! Get your men out of there!

Aragorn: Am Marad! Am Marad! Haldir! Am Marad! (To the
keep! Pull back to the keep! (Haldir!) To the keep!)

Gimli: What are you doing? What are you stopping for?

Aragorn: HALDIR!

Soldier: Brace the gate!

Soldier: Hold them!

Theoden: To the gate! Draw your swords!

Gamling: Make way! We canвЂ™t hold much longer!

Theoden: Hold them!

Aragorn: How long do you need?

Theoden: As long as you can give me!

Aragorn: Gimli!

Theoden: Timbers!

Soldier: Brace the gate!

Gimli: Come on! We can take them!

Aragorn: ItвЂ™s a long way.

Gimli: Toss me.

Aragorn: What?

Gimli: I cannot jump the distance so you have to toss me!

Gimli: DonвЂ™t tell the elf.

Aragorn: Not a word.

Theoden: Shore up the door!

Soldier: Make way! Follow me to the barricade!

Soldier: Watch our backs.

Soldier: Throw another one over here!

Theoden: Higher!

Soldier: Hold fast the gate.

Theoden: Gimli! Aragorn! Get out of there!

Legolas: Aragorn!

Theoden: Pull everybody back! Pull them back!

Gamling: Pull back! Pull back!

Theoden: TheyвЂ™ve broken through! The castle is breached! Retreat!

Soldier: Pull back!

Theoden: Retreat!

Aragorn: Hurry! Inside! Get them inside!

Soldier: Into the Keep!

Soldier: Pull back!

Treebeard: I will leave you at the western borders of the forest. You
can make your way north to your homeland from there.

Pippin: Wait! Stop! Stop! Turn around. Turn around. Take us south!

Treebeard: South? But that will lead you past Isengard.

Pippin: Yes. Exactly. If we go south we can slip past Saruman unnoticed.
The closer we are to danger, the farther we are from harm. ItвЂ™s the last thing
heвЂ™ll expect.

Treebeard: That doesnвЂ™t make sense to me. But then, you are very small.
Perhaps youвЂ™re right. South it is then. Hold on, little shirelings. I always
like going south. Somehow it feels like going down hill.

Merry: Are you mad? WeвЂ™ll be caught!

Pippin: No we wonвЂ™t. Not this time.

Ranger: Look! Osgiliath burns!

Ranger: Mordor has come.

Frodo: The Ring will not save Gondor. It has only the power to destroy.
Please, let me go.

Faramir: Hurry!

Frodo: Faramir, you must let me go!

Treebeard: вЂ¦and a little family of field mice that climb up sometimes
and they tickle me awfully. TheyвЂ™re always trying to get somewhereвЂ¦ Oh! Many of
these trees were my friends. Creatures I had known from nut and acorn.

Pippin: IвЂ™m sorry, Treebeard.

Treebeard: They had voices of their own. Saruman! A wizard should know
better!

Treebeard: There is no curse in elvish, entish or the tongues of Men for
this treachery. My business is with Isengard tonight. With rock and stone!

Merry: Yes!

Treebeard: Come my friends. The Ents are going to war. It is likely that
we go to our doom. The last march of the Ents!

Soldier 1: Faramir, orcs have taken the eastern shore. Their numbers are
too great. By nightfall weвЂ™ll be overrun.

Sam: Mr. Frodo!

Frodo: ItвЂ™s calling to Him, Sam. His Eye is almost on me.

Sam: Hold on, Mr. Frodo, you'll be alrightвЂ¦

Faramir: Take them to my father. Tell him, Faramir sends a mighty gift.
A weapon that will change our fortunes in this war.

Sam: You want to know what happened to Boromir? You want to know why
your brother died? He tried to take the Ring from Frodo! After swearing an oath
to protect him, he tried to kill him! The Ring drove your brother mad!

Soldier: Watch out!

Sam: Mr. Frodo?

Frodo: TheyвЂ™re here. TheyвЂ™ve come.

Faramir (to Rangers): Nazgul!

Faramir (to Frodo): Stay here. Keep out of sight.

Faramir (to Rangers): Take cover!

Theoden: The fortress is taken. It is over.

Aragorn: You said this fortress would never fall while your men defend
it! They still defend it! They have died defending it!

Woman: They are breaking in!

Woman: TheyвЂ™re past the door!

Aragorn: Is there no other way for the women and children to get out of
the caves? Is there no other way?

Gamling: There is one passage. It leads into the mountains. But they
will not get far. The Uruk-hai are too many.

Aragorn: Send word for the women and children to make for the mountain
pass. And barricade the entrance!

Theoden: So much death. What can Men do against such reckless hate?

Aragorn: Ride out with me. Ride out and meet them.

Theoden: For death and glory?

Aragorn: For Rohan. For your people.

Gimli: The sun is rising.

Gandalf (V.O.): Look to my coming at first light on the fifth day. At
dawn, look to the east.

Theoden: Yes. Yes! The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the Deep
one last time!

Gimli: Yes!

Theoden: Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds
awake. Now for wrath! Now for ruin! And a red dawn!

Theoden: Forth Eorlingas!!!

Aragorn: Gandalf.

Gandalf: Theoden king stands alone.

Eomer: Not alone. Rohirrim!!!

Theoden: Eomer!

Eomer: To the king!

Pippin: Yes!

Treebeard: A hit. A fine hit!

Treebeard: Break the dam! Release the river!

Merry: Pippin, hold on!

Treebeard: Hold on, little hobbits!

Sam: What are you doing? Where are you going?!

Sam: ItвЂ™s me. ItвЂ™s your Sam. DonвЂ™t you know your Sam?

Frodo: I canвЂ™t do this, Sam.

Sam: I know. ItвЂ™s all wrong. By rights we shouldnвЂ™t even be here. But we
are. ItвЂ™s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered.
Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didnвЂ™t want to know
the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the
way it was when so much bad had happened?

Theoden: Victory! We have victory!

Sam: But in the end, itвЂ™s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even
darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine
out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant
something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr.
Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances
of turning back only they didnвЂ™t. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?

Sam: ThereвЂ™s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And itвЂ™s worth fighting
for.

Faramir: I think at last we understand one another, Frodo Baggins.

Ranger 1: You know the laws of our country, the laws of your father. If
you let them go, your life will be forfeit.

Faramir: Then it is forfeit. Release them.

Gandalf: SauronвЂ™s wrath will be terrible, his retribution swift. The
battle for HelmвЂ™s Deep is over. The battle for Middle-earth is about to begin.
All our hopes now lie with two little hobbits. Somewhere in the wilderness.

Sam: I wonder if weвЂ™ll ever be put into songs or tales.

Frodo: What?

Sam: I wonder if people will ever say, вЂњLetвЂ™s hear about Frodo and the
Ring.вЂќ. And theyвЂ™ll say, вЂњYes, thatвЂ™s one of my favorite stories. Frodo was
really courageous, wasnвЂ™t he, dad?вЂќ вЂњYes, my boy, the most famousest of
Hobbits. And thatвЂ™s saying a lot.вЂќ

Frodo: You left out one of the chief characters вЂ“ Samwise the Brave. вЂњI
want to hear more about SamвЂќ.

Frodo: Frodo wouldnвЂ™t have got far without Sam.

Sam: Now Mr. Frodo, you shouldnвЂ™t make fun. I was being serious.

Frodo: So was I.

Sam: вЂњSamwise the BraveвЂќ.

Frodo: Smeagol!

Sam: WeвЂ™re not gonna wait for you. Come on!

Smeagol: MasterвЂ¦ master looks after us. Master wouldnвЂ™t hurt us.

Gollum: Master broke his promise.

Smeagol: DonвЂ™t ask Smeagol. Poor, poor Smeagol.

Gollum: Master betrayed us! Wicked, tricksy, false! We ought to wring
his filthy little neck! Kill him! Kill him! Kill them both! And then we take
the Precious, and we be the master!

Smeagol: The fat hobbit, he knows. His eyes always watching.

Gollum: Then we stabs them out. Put out his eyeses. And then make him
crawl.

Smeagol: Yes! Yes! Yes!

Gollum: Kill them both.

Smeagol: Yes! No, no! ItвЂ™s too risky, itвЂ™s too risky!

Sam: WhereвЂ™s he gone? Hey, Gollum, where are you?

Frodo: Smeagol?

Gollum: We could let her do it.

Smeagol: Yes. She could do it.

Gollum: Yes, precious, she could. And then we takes It once theyвЂ™re
dead.

Smeagol: Once theyвЂ™re deadвЂ¦

Smeagol: Come on, hobbits. Long ways to go yet. Smeagol will show you
the way.